I'm interested in building a Huffman Coding prototype. To that end, I want to begin by producing a histogram of the characters that make up an input Java String. I've seen many solutions on SO and elsewhere (e.g:here that depend on using the collect() methods for Streams as well as static imports of Function.identity() and Collectors.counting() in a very specific and intuitive way.
However, when using a piece of code eerily similar to the one I linked to above:
private List<HuffmanTrieNode> getCharsAndFreqs(String s){
Map<Character, Long> freqs = s.chars().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Function.identity(), Collectors.counting()));
return null;
}
I receive a compile-time-error from Intellij which essentially tells me that there is no arguments to collect that conforms to a Supplier type, as required by its signature:
Unfortunately, I'm new to the Java 8 Stream hierarchy and I'm not entirely sure what the best course of action for me should be. In fact, going the Map way might be too much boilerplate for what I'm trying to do; please advise if so.